Video Assistant Referee (VAR), gender and football refereeing

A scoping review

Bibliographic Data

ID16768709
AuthorsSigbjørn Børreson Skirbekk (0009-0008-9836-0843, Nord University, corresponding author), Sigbjørn Skirbekk
Year2024
Volume25
Issue3
Pages360-377
Publication date2024-04-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSoccer and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1466-0970 • E-ISSN: 1743-9590
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14660970.2023.2256231
OpenAlexW4386887758
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited36

The increasing use of VAR globally affects the refereeing role and may have unintended gendered consequences for referees.This scoping review 1) summarizes and maps the research on refereeing, gender, and VAR in football, 2) identifies and analyzes knowledge gaps in the field, and 3) suggests recommendations for practice, and future research.The review indicates that the combination of gender and technology, and how they impact the refereeing role, is not featured in research.Instead, VAR studies mainly focus on the outcome of decisions, while research on gender and refereeing concerns individual experiences of female referees.The review further shows the implementation of certain technologies in football, and their consequences for male and female referees, has not received the scholarly attention it deserves.Future studies should utilize organizational, intersectional, and medial perspectives to understand how VAR and other novel refereeing technologies can be used to achieve gender equity in refereeing

Business · Football · Gender equity · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of sport · Unintended consequences · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports Analytics and Performance · Sports, Gender, and Society · Marketing

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